1   By this time Joshua had become very old, and the Lord said to him, ‘You are now a very old man, and much of the country remains to be occupied. 2   The country which remains is this: all the 3   districts of the Philistines and all the Geshurite country (this is reckoned as Canaanite territory from Shihor to the east of Egypt as far north as Ekron; and it belongs to the five lords of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron); all the districts of the Avvim on the south; 4   all the Canaanite country from the low-lying land which belongs to the Sidonians as far as Aphek, the Amorite frontier; 5   the land of the Gebalites and all the Lebanon to the east from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. 6   I will drive out in favour of the Israelites all the inhabitants of the hill-country from the Lebanon as far as Misrephoth on the west, and all the Sidonians. In the mean

The division of the land among the tribes time you are to allot all this to the Israelites for their patrimony, as I have commanded you. 7   Distribute this land now to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh for their patrimony.’ 8   For half the tribe of Manasseh and ^note with them the Reubenites and the Gadites had each taken their patrimony which Moses gave them east of the Jordan, as Moses the servant of the Lord had ordained. 9   It started from Aroer which is by the edge of the gorge of the Arnon, and the level land half-way along the gorge, and included all the tableland from Medeba as far as Dibon; 10   all the cities of Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, as far as the Ammonite frontier; 11   and it also included Gilead and the Geshurite and Maacathite territory, and all Mount Hermon and the whole of Bashan as far as Salcah, 12   all the kingdom of Og which he ruled from both Ashtaroth and Edrei in Bashan. He was a survivor of the remnant of the Rephaim, but Moses put them both to death and occupied their lands. 13   But the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites and the Maacathites; the Geshurites and the Maacathites live among the Israelites to this day. 14   The tribe of Levi, however, received no patrimony; ^note the Lord the God of Israel is their patrimony, as he promised them.

15   So Moses allotted territory to the tribe of the Reubenites family by family. 16   Their territory started from Aroer which is by the edge of the gorge of the Arnon, and the level land half-way along the gorge, and included all the tableland as far as Medeba; 17   Heshbon and all its cities on the tableland, 18   Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon, Jahaz, Kedemoth, 19   Mephaath, Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the Vale, 20   Beth-peor, the watershed of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth, all the cities of the tableland, 21   all the kingdom of Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses put to death together with the princes of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the vassals of Sihon who dwelt in the country. 22   Balaam son of Beor, who practised augury, was among those whom the Israelites put to the sword. 23   The boundary of the Reubenites was the Jordan and the adjacent land: this is the patrimony of the Reubenites family by family, both the cities and their hamlets.

24    25   Moses allotted ^note territory to the Gadites family by family. Their territory was Jazer, all the cities of Gilead and half the Ammonite country as far as Aroer which is east of Rabbah. 26   It reached from Heshbon as far as Ramoth-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the boundary of Lo-debar; 27   it included in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon. The boundary was the Jordan and the adjacent land as far as the end of the Sea of Kinnereth east of the Jordan. 28   This is the

The division of the land among the tribes patrimony of the Gadites family by family, both the cities and their hamlets.

29   Moses allotted territory to the half tribe of Manasseh: it was for half the tribe of the Manassites family by family. 30   Their territory ran from Mahanaim and included all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan and all Havvoth-jair in Bashan—sixty cities. 31   Half Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei the royal cities of Og in Bashan, belong to the sons of Machir son of Manasseh on behalf of half the Machirites family by family.

32   These are the territories which Moses allotted to the tribes as their patrimonies in the lowlands of Moab east of the Jordan. ^note 33   But to the tribe of Levi he gave no patrimony: the Lord the God of Israel is their patrimony, as he promised them.

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